Friday, 17th July

Design Your Own  Book Cover for your suspense text

 This is an extension task for those of you that have completed the storyboard.

• First think of all the words to put on the cover: title, author, publisher,
• Secondly think of a picture that would show what the book is about.
• Next draw a rough design.
• Choose a colour scheme, 3 colours are usually enough.

Have a look at some of the examples of front covers. Thank you to everyone who has has completed work from the blog. It was lovely to get so many pieces of work sent to me. I hope you have a lovely summer holiday and see you in September.

Happy holidays,

Mr Rist

Thursday, July 16th

Now, we are moving onto the writing stage. This is not an extended piece of writing; this is more about the quality of the writing. Therefore, I would like you to present it as a storyboard. I have done mine on A3 paper and split into 8 sections.

Also, if you struggle for ideas, I have included a writing frame with different openers.

Tips for storyboard:

• Write your sentences on a separate piece of paper first
• use your plan to help with your writing – it only needs to be 8 sentences
• focus on the word choices – using vocabulary that builds up the suspense
• change the lengths of your sentences – short ones to move the story on quickly, longer details to add detail
• fold your sheet of A3/ A4 paper into eigths ( fold it in half 3 times)
• draw a line across the middle of each box
• add your sentences to the storyboard
• illustrate your storyboard

The storyboard should take 2 days. However, if you finish, I will have an extension task for you on Friday. Good luck!

Wednesday, 15th July

The next part of our suspense writing is the planning stage. I have included a plan of my own which you might find useful ; feel free to magpie any ideas or word choices. 

The plan needs to have:

•  a scary setting
• a description of the setting
• effective word choices
• how the character is feeling
• evidence of feelings through actions
• sounds
• a variety of openers
• an illustration

As well as my plan, I have also included:

• a descriptosaurus - with lots of amazing descriptive language for suspense settings
• a suspense vocabulary word mat

I look forward to reading your plan! 

Tuesday, July 14th

I hope you enjoyed doing the Talk for Writing yesterday ; I would love to see some of your videos! Today, I would like you to create a story map using illustrations and words. To help, I have completed a story map for the first two sentences. You can either start from the beginning or from where I have got up to.

Tips:

• you can include some words
• make sure it is clearly illustrated
• make sure it is in time order

Good luck!

Monday , 13th July

Wow, some fantastic Lockdown poems from AG, RW, EM, VS, NM, AH, BW in our Key Worker bubbles. Well done everybody!

Monday, 13th July

Punctuation and Grammar

This week, our Punctuation and Grammar links in with our suspense writing. Synonyms are words that have a similar meaning. Using better word choices will improve the quality of our writing. If you are not able to think of a better synonym, you can always use a Thesaurus or go online to https://kidthesaurus.com/

Please watch the 2 video clip about how to use a Thesaurus and synonyms.

Suspense writing day 2

Read the paragraph about Boris and watch the video to see me acting it out. Can you act it out for your friends and family? remember to rehearse it a few times before you feel confident enough to perform it.   Now, it's over to you! Good luck!